2019 Competitions - 2D Design & SOLIDWORKS

TechSoft Celebrating Excellence in CAD/CAM

SOLIDWORKSCompetition 2019

Following the success of our competition last year, TechSoft in collaboration with SOLIDWORKS are inviting entries that will
showcase and celebrate how your students are using SOLIDWORKS to design smart products for the 21st Century.

We know how busy students and teachers are so we
don’t expect ‘special’ competition projects – this is to recognise the work students are already doing.

SOLIDWORKS provides powerful tools to give shape to ideas and develop them into an optimum solution. Simply recording these
stages of design iteration is exactly what examiners want to see for top grades. SOLIDWORKS models can be tested for
sustainability and strength, they can be assembled to test how they fit and simple assemblies can be animated to make sure they
work as expected. A model can provide the file for 3D printing (ARP) or 3D machining (SRP). They can be printed-out as
traditional orthographic drawings or can be rendered and ‘lit’ to give a photo-realistic image for marketing or to impress a
potential client. Exactly which SOLIDWORKS tools and features get used for any given project depending (of course) on what the design task is.

When judging entries, we will be looking at how effectively a student has used whatever SOLIDWORKS tools are
appropriate to help them arrive at their final product.

Winning Entry from a previous SOLIDWORKS U19 Competition:

TechSoft 2D DesignCompetition 2019

2D Design
has been the mainstay for Computer Aided Design in schools and colleges for over 25 years. It remains (by far) the most
widely-used CAD system for students and it is still the ideal tool when designing profiles for laser-cutting, knife-cutting,
milling, routing or engraving.

Some products are 2D by definition – most graphical products for example. 2D Design is not just
about creating accurate geometry. Within 2D Design is a vast array of image manipulation, pattern design, vectorising, font
design and alignment tools (to name just a few) that make it the ideal platform for graphic design where the results could be
for sublimation-printed fabrics, packaging graphics, display and presentation, or computerised embroidery output.

We think it’s time to bring 2D Design out of the shadows and celebrate the wonderful work that students are already doing. We
believe that 2D Design and SOLIDWORKS complement each other perfectly to give students everything they need to design original
projects that give full reign to their creativity.

We are inviting you to submit examples of student work that shows how they
have used 2D Design to great effect. It could be ‘technical’ design, graphical design or a combination of both.

Winning Entry from a previous 2D Design U17 Competition:

Entrants

For each competition, entries are invited from all UK-based schools and colleges in two age categories.

KS3/4 - Students aged 16 and under as of August 31st 2019

KS5 - Students aged 18 and under as of August 31st 2019

We know how busy students and teachers are so we don’t expect ‘special’ competition projects – this is to recognise the work students are already doing.

Gather Your Student's Entries
Each entry must comprise one A3 sheet in pdf
format (2 x A4 pages of work accepted) that summarises the project and contains photographic evidence of a
final product, together with all the SOLIDWORKS or 2D Design files that clearly illustrate where and how the software has been
used.

For each competition, individual schools and colleges may enter up to 3 student projects in each of the age categories.

Each entry must be endorsed by a supervising teacher as the unaided work of the student.

If you are related to anyone at TechSoft or SOLIDWORKS Corp., then, sorry, but you cannot enter.

All entrants must agree to allow TechSoft Ltd and/or SOLIDWORKS Corp. to use images and descriptions of their work in any web-based or printed promotion and publicity material.

Prizes and Judging

The SOLIDWORKS competition will be judged by Andrew Gregory, SOLIDWORKS Education Manager for the whole of Europe. The 2D Design competition will be judged by Mike Brown, one of the co-founders of TechSoft UK Ltd.

The prize in each of the categories (SOLIDWORKS Under 19; SOLIDWORKS Under 17; 2D Design Under 19; 2D Design Under 17) will be: